On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 04:25:36PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > la, 2009-03-21 kello 15:04 +0100, Joerg Jaspert kirjoitti: > > We require, and have seen nothing to convince us otherwise, that > > Debian > > maintainers need to do the basic work of listing each copyright holder in > > debian/copyright, as seen in the source files and AUTHORS list or > > equivalent (if any). > > It would, of course, help, if at least most upstreams would adopt some > systematic way of marking such. Could we push the machine-readable > debian/copyright file upstream? :)
I think a standardised machine-readable copyright and licence header for every source file would be desirable. I do this for all my code. Most upstreams do use a semi-standard list of copyright holders followed by licence boilerplate, so it would hopefully only be a case of fixing up files where a formatting screwup breaks the format. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
